I have the privilege of being selected to fill two slots this weekend at #SQLSaturday349 in Salt Lake City. The venue is simultaneously hosting the Big Mountain Data event.
My talks are:
To the Cloud, Infinity, & Beyond: Top 10 Lessons Learned at MSIT
&
Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014: Flipping the DW /faster ...

I've been keen on MySQL ever since I first started using it heavily more than a decade ago. In fact, I liked it well enough to include it as one of the four main database platforms, over and above the ANSI-ISO SQL standard, in my popular book SQL in a Nutshell. However, with the advent of NoSQL data platforms in the last few years, ...